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BONJOUR, HI
To whom it may concern,
This letter of intent is to express my deepest interest in the program of
Computation Arts (BFA)Specialization oered at Concordia University.
As someone with a passion for both art and technology, this program would provide
me with the ideal platform to explore & developp my creative interests.
As I pull out the lugage acquired along my journey into the overhead of this plane, I hope
to travel through this adventure. Starting from my parents, they are a crucial part of who I
am now. Being at the two extremes of the spectrum in terms of personality and discipline.
They have greatly influenced my methodology and shaped my vision of what was around
as I learn to navigate.
In the stands, there she is, my mother.
” As a former ice skater, she was present at all my
training sessions, 5 times a week. Pushing me to go further in my discipline.
A pressure to strive. I took on this belief as my own. As I decided to leave the comfort
of my mother’s nest into the unknown abyss of my father’s side. I discovered this new way
of total freedom, a dierent way of education.
Having experienced these two extremes, I sought myself through all of this. I conformed
to this idea of finding the center of this axis. Also allowing me to pivot in my own way from
one point to the other. This leads me to find this peace into the creative world.
Comes, my desire to be multidisciplinary but always on a trajectory towards creation.
Understanding that this is a privilege to be able to research, to develop ideas and
concepts: The more unknown it is, the more curious I am, the more I want to learn and
the more I wish to understand. The field of creative technology fascinates me and it is
also towards this sector that I wish to pursue. I wish to develop conceptual and technical
skills in the realm of the new media arts.
My aspiration is to constantly work on meaningful projects that will both help me grow
and challenge myself. In the past few years, being on the job market has allowed me to
gain professional experience in the advertising agencies. Althought, pursuing my practice
and developping my own meaningful creation is my moto. I believe in shaping myself
through what I do and the way I do it. In the pursue of a personal project, I wish to work
on the realization of an ephemeral interactive installation resulting from personal and
external learning. My skills is more specific to the design world, but knowing this would
be a tool use as base to further skills.
My knowledge and skills lacks in the electronics & the programming. Nonetheless, I am
extremely eager to learn. I wish to delvelop further techniques in tangible media and
physical computing projects using electronics, softwares and programming such as
Arduino, processing or any resources considered relevant to proactively pursue in the
venture.
The chance of exploring and to furthermore the practice in the Faculty of Design and
Computation Arts is a chance I wish can be considered. This program will equip me with
the necessary knowledge, skills, and opportunities to seek a path in this rapidly evolving
field of new media arts and design.
Thank you for your consideration of my application. I look forward to the opportunity
to further discuss my qualifications and interests with you.
Kindly, I invite you to visit my portfolio for further details.
1 - BETA
Slow moving fish with the bright contrast of the outside.
The idea was to create the sentiment of steadyness
and movement in a representation to the individual.
In this era of bright, colorful & playful personality, I
wanted to showcase the contrast. The representation
as I perceive in the bright solitude of the Beta fish,
drifting in the container while displaying a colorful shell.
Eventually, I wish to make this piece more interactive
with the individuals.
Please find the video (1-BETA)
of these slow dancing fish in slideroom.
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TYPE OF PROJECT :
Generative animation & design
MEDIUM :
Touchdesigner generative design & Stock video.
Disclaimer:
I hereby declare that I do not own the rights to this stock video. All
rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended. The
purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a
If I ask you to close your eyes and I tell you: “a bird”, the image that will come to your
mind will certainly be the image of a cardinal bird or a sparrow (the little brown bird that
can be found everywhere in Montreal). These pretty birds.
However, it is interesting to know that the first image that comes to mind will not be an
owl or a chicken - also in the family of birds. Why is that so? Does the acquisition of
concepts limit us to seeing only what is that which is initially internalized and predisposed
to us during our life?
Do concepts limit us in the perception of reality?
Tropes allow us to get out of this reality and to see words and terms in a dierent and
terms from another angle. They allow us to internalize these words under another
image and another sensation. It is to seek to divert the meaning of an initial word by a
completely dierent story. They are thus the “
fruit
” of mental associations resulting from
changes in the initial meaning of the word.
In the example just above, in italics, the word fruit has been put in quotation marks, in
order to refer to the meaning of the outcome and not to the fruit as consumed. How
could we introduce the dierent tropical expressions into visuals using our own language
as data?
This is the project I have in mind. To have the possibility to put in visual a trope
or the literal image of a word in a precise context. This project challenges me without
precedent and is based on an inspiration and a way of being that is sometimes
problematic for me. It is not always easy to understand these linguistic subtleties. All
understandings also depend on our baggage. In my case, I am aware that I have diculty
understanding a trope and I am more inclined to visualize it literally instead of using its
word in its figurative use. And if it were possible to literally visualize physically these
tropes that surround us and get as close as possible to these expressions that we use
nonchalantly? Thus, in order to help us understand the world around us.
By exploring the words of the language and the interaction of the users, I believe that it
would be possible to get them to integrate and visualize the tropes (which can be literal
or figurative). And if we heard: “You eat like a pig” it might be interesting to literally see a
scene where one is in the form of a pig surrounded by pigs eating our meal(this is only
an example). I wish to explore further this idea and develop this as an interactive piece.
The trope can be compared to an ornament which visually/imaginatively/phonically
serves to embellish.
2 - THROPES. thoughts, processes and intentions
2 - THROPES. moodboard
2 - THROPES. outside project
Inspired by the previous premisses, I screenprinted
a design I made from the inspiration of an ornaments
that represent a trope. The message within this design
wish to project the idea that not all ornaments mean to
embellish.
A trope, a figure of speech or rhetorical to embellish a text
or to make it more text or to make it more lively and which
consists in using a word or an expression expression in a
sense diverted from its proper its proper meaning.
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TYPE OF PROJECT :
Serigraphy, screens printing & build of a dark room
MEDIUM :
Adobe Illustration & screen printing technique
3 - ALONG THE WAY
Along the ways – explore dierent techniques of
animations. Meltpot of 3d texture and collage of short
clips.
Please find the video (3-ALONG_THE_WAY)
of this animation in Slide room.
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TYPE OF PROJECT :
Video animation
MEDIUM  :
After Eects & Red Giant plugins
4 - THE EQUATION OF SANITY
Dedicated to mathematicians who have fallen
into madness.
This project is a combination of equation, sounds and
images in the honor of mathematicians who have
dedicated their lives to the understanding of formulas.
This website is a production intended to be interactive
with the user to engage. A representation of the great
mathematicians bordering on madness.
I invite you to visite this Github link:
https://mslineon.github.io/
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TYPE OF PROJECTS :
Website design & conceptual
LANGUAGES :
HTML, CSS & Javascript
Disclaimer:
This piece is a mixture and combination of CSS & Javascript
programming found on the net. Some parameters have been changed
to support the aesthetics of the site. Please, find in the file the codes
that have been used. In no case, I intend to make these codes my
own and utilize them in its fair use. Please note that the project is not
fully completed. Hence, you will find some pages that are displaying
some issue.
4 - NEW EMOJIS
For this project, I wanted to project my emotions
and experiment the touchdesigner software. Emojis
are a way of expressing in this world of digital
communication. Therefore, I projected these types of
communication and mapped on a lamp these more
playful communication.
Please find the video (4-NEW_EMOJIS)
of the projection mapping slideroom.
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TYPE OF PROJECT :
Projection Mapping
MEDIUM  :
Touchdesigner & Youtube video of emojis.
Disclaimer:
I hereby declare that I do not own the rights to this stock video. All
rights belong to the owner. No Copyright Infringement Intended. The
purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a
commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
🙃
please see the video
please see the video
🙃
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please see the video
🙃
🙃
please see the video
🙃
please see the video
🙃
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please see the video
please see the video
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🙂 🙂
please see the video
6 - THE GOLDEN CAGE
Pandemy invited itself into our life. As we navigate
to adapt to this new reality. In repercussion to this
instance, it will have been required to work from home
From this thought, I had the idea to create an open
space inside the house that gave a semblance of
getting out and entering back into the house. This is
what I now call my gilded cage.
Since I didn’t have the welding skills to build a metal
box, I turned to a welding artist for the execution part.
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TYPE OF PROJECT :
Collaboration & Conception
MEDIUM :
Sketching
7 - DESIGN SERIES
This series is a collection of design collected
throughout the years that was more directed toward
conceptual and linking idea to images.
For this part, I wish to not further go into details and
description as I wish to let you imagine what you aim to
see.
Please find the full design of this series in slideroom.
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TYPE OF PROJECT :
Design & Conception
MEDIUM :
Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustrator
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INVOLVEMENTS
As a firm believer in the interaction of the community as a whole and in all of its forms, I wish to present more
of my involvement in the creative sphere through various events in Quebec. I am very passionnate about
participating in the creation of communities experience and I love involving myself in the planification of events
that touches me.
The next two pages are less personal projects, but more collaboration and are as important in my eye.
They representant my involvments in the artists community that I wish to share with you. I believe in a way that
they are projects that are important for the culture in Québec as they showcase the importance
of arts, technology & self-expression.
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INVOLVEMENTS - MUSICMOTION
MusicMotion is a non-profit organization that contributes
to the advancement of music and interactive arts
through the production of targeted events and the
development of an international community.
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TYPE OF EVENTS :
Hackathon events
INVOLVEMENT :
Participation in the organization of the Hackathon
WEBSITE LINKS :
MusicMotion Hacklab 2019
MusicMotion Hacklab 2021
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INVOLVEMENTS - ILLUSION FESTIVAL
The Illusion Festival acts as a catalyst for the Quebec
creative community. It is the combination of dierent
musical, performative, artistic and technological
mediums that allows all to act as a vector of wonder for
the child in all of us.
The Illusion festival is an electronic music and visual
arts festival cumulating 3 editions since 2017. It brings
together each year more than a hundred artists of
all kinds; DJs, digital arts collectives, live artists, etc.
Combining benevolence and social involvement
through play and culture, the festival is based on values
of sharing and development through the arts.
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TYPE OF EVENTS :
Musical performance, Artistic installation.
INVOLVEMENT :
Management of the artists & people involve in the festival.
Communication platform
LINKS:
https://www.festivalillusion.com/
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TESTING THE WATER - EXPERIMENTATION
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Thank you!